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Sigma Chi Chooses 5 Sweetheart Finalists
. . . and now there are five.
The five finalists in the “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” contest, as voted by the members of the .fraternity last night, are:
Joann Clare, Delta Gamma; Maxine Ewart, Pi Beta Phi; Ann Kelly, EVK; Marilyn Lindberg, Delta Delta Delta; Sally Trax, Alpha Gamma Delta.
At tonight’s dinner the "Sweetheart'’ will be selected. The announcement of the final choice will be made at the formal dance, given by Sigma Chi, tomorrow
night at the Miramar hotel. Two attendants will also be named.
Barbara Lohrmann, last year’s “Sweetheart,” will be tonight’s honored guest. All the balloting for the entrants who represent sorority houses and women resident halls, is conducted by the members of the fraternity. The original field
of contestants numbered 20.
MAXINE EWART A Former "Helen"
SALLY TRAX Might Be Winner
C-ND Film Set or Noon Benefit
Complete films of this jars SC-Notre Dame game, which many sports author-ies said SC used the best sing patterns they had rer seen, will be shown at >n today in Bovard. Admission to the snowing, )nsored by the Living War [emorial committee, will
>nsist of a student body I.D. card id a Living War Memorial con- j ibution receipt. The display of | cards is made nceessary by a icific Coast conference ruling h>hibiting the showing of such films to the general public. University college students and lembers of organizations which »ave made J00 per-cent oontribu-jlons to the drive need only show Eheir I.D. cards, and, in the case ►f the latter, evidence of their lembership in the organizations, |&s they were not issued receipts.
NO SOLICITORS Hal Carter, president of Trovets, rhich sponsors the drive, said that booth would be set up from 10 111 12 noon today in front of the tudent Union to take last minute tmtributions.
I Total contributions for the drive L>ve passed the $3000 mark, said fcarter. He said he was sure that i le amount collected this year Jould surpass last years $3800 toll when last minute contributions ! id pledged donations were re- ! pived.
HOPE FOR FINAL RUSH
| Optimistic Al Asa-Dorian, drive lairman, said he felt that last [mute contributions to the drive light surprise everyone.
[“Everybody does things at the I st minute,” said Asa-Dorian. iere is a good chance that con-
tributions today may equal what we've collected so far.”
Both Carter and Asa-Dorian praised War Memorial workers for the “interest and effort they have put into the drive.”
Baxter to Give Yule Reading
Dr. Frank Baxter, professor of English literature, will give his Christmas readings at the Pi Lambda Theta breakfast tomorrow morning at 9:30 in tihe Carolina Pines restaurant, 7315 Melrose avenue.
Guests at the meeting sponsored by the SC and UCLA chapters,
-dsip aijuumpj sapguv soq am pub ters will include Mrs. Eleanor Allen, Mrs. Gertrude Rounsavelle, Dr. May Seagoe, Dr. and Mrs. Frank Baxter, and seven foreign students.
Arrangements for the meeting have been handled by the presidents of the three chapters of the educational honorary sorority, Katherine Holzboog, UCLA; Mrs. Elsa May Smith, SC; and Clara May Post. Los Angeles alumna chapter.
Pokey Story of Eager Injun,
Is Hancock Hit
by JERRY BOYD
“Pokey,” the story of an eager injun. who draped her gorgeous shape over a skull which was about to be bashed in, was presented before a receptive audience last night in crowded Hancock as the final part of the Red Rhythms program.
Capt. John Smith was the owner of the skull. The trials and tribulations which he went through in getting his cranium in such a precarious predicament made for a hilarious comedy, climaxed by the dramatic moment when Pocahontas told her old man:
“If he gets it, I get it too.”
Mrs. Estelle Karcher Harmon, lecturer in the Theater Arts department at UCLA and Ph.D. candidate at SC, handled Pokey’s lines. Mrs. Harmon’s interpretation of Philip Moeller’s live-actor cartoon character was the high point of the Festival of Arts program.
Harold B. Owen, graduate student, capably handled the part of the harried Captain. Smith, and Arthur B. Friedman, another UCLA lecturer and SC Ph.D. candidate, read the part of Rolfe of Somersetshire, Smith’s sidekick.
The three-man show was put over in the subtle manner which Moeller intended it to be, and the acting was equal to the occasion. The actors, however, all of whom purportedly have had considerable experience in producing, directing, and acting, indicated that they might have had more experience in the first two fields than in the last.
“The Feast of the Virgins,” a dramatic reading of a Sioux legend, was handled by Kenneth Shanks, graduate student and teaching assistant in the speech department.
The show might have dragged at this point but for the brilliant emceeing by the old master of masters of ceremonies, Joe Flynn. Flynn’s prologue to the “Feast” reading put the audience into the right frame of mind and carried them through.
The program ended with the showing of “The Loon’s Necklace,” an art film which solves the mystery of how the loon got its necklace according to an Indian legend.
MARILYN LINDBERG "Dream Girl"
Could Take Crown
Delta Sig to Hold Silver, Cold Anniversary Ball
Jpha Phi Omega Ushers
Alpha Phi Omega members are lo report at 11:45 today to Bo-I "ard to usher for the film. [Sweaters, white shirts, and ties ild be worn.
A silver anniversary calls for a big celebration. A golden anniversary calls for a bigger celebration. Try combining the celebrations for both a silver and golden anniversary and you'll come up with something like the Carnation Ball to be held tomorrow night by Delta Sigma Phi.
The men of Delta Sigma Phi will commemorate the founding of the rational organization at City College of New York in 1899, as well as the founding of SC’s Alpha Phi
chapter in 1924, with their annual dance at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. Alpha Phi chapter has one of the longest uninterrupted existences on this campus.
The fraternity will dedicate its activities during the coming year to the men who founded their chapter.
Prominent alumni include Sid Beach, past president of the Los Angeles Realty board, and Russ Cordell, past president of the Trojan club.
Unions Blamed For Nixing GI Holiday Jobs
A labor decision from the eastern office of Railway Express was responsible for the turning away of vet students when they applied for temporary Christmas work this week, according to Railway Express personnel officials.
“An investigation revealed the fact that certain national labor groups are adverse to veterans, who are being subsidized and educated by the government securing part-time jobs which unemployed union members may desire,” Mrs. Florence B. Watt, director of the university employment office, said yesterday.
“However,” Mrs. Watt continued, “the California State Employment Service is cooperating with the university employment bureau in placing disappointed SC \Tts in depot jobs.” The state employment service is telephoning all men who were scheduled to work for the express company, and it is expected that they will be placed if they are at home to receive the call.
“Because of our fine relations with Railway Express during the past years, we feel certain that this temporary situation can be adjusted satisfactorily,” Mrs. Watt said.
The campus unit of the office of veteran affairs said that it had received a call from Railway Express about the decision not to hire vets, but that no immediate action would be taken.
Union officials were not available for comment.
)ELTA SIGMA PHI will hold its annual Carnation ball at the Beverly Wilshire hotel tomorrow night. The fraternity this year commemorates its national and local, silver and gold* anniversaries. Pictured left to right are Barbara Bates, Doug Morgan, Ann DeFreze,
Joe Perez, Jane Aven, and Tom HalL
Engineer to Hold Govt. Interviews
State Bureau of Public Roads will be on campus today to interview engineering students and graduates for positions under the bureau’s highway engineer training program.
Men who have completed two or three years of civil engineering training are eligible for the program as are graduates.
The training period will continue approximately three years after graduation. Students already graduated also are eligible for work as highway engineer and highway bridge engineer.
H. A. Alderton, senior highway engineer, will conduct the interviews in 320 Student Union.
‘Herring’ Run Begins Tonight as Opera on Village Farce Opens
Based On French Tale
by AL NEGRI and OWEN ANDERSON
Ever since the Met began hiring glamour girls, opera has been something to look at as well as hear. Now comes something new—an opera with sex.
Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring,” which opens a 4-night run tonight at 8:30 in Bovard auditorium, is based
on a story by Guy de Maupassant. The French made it into a movie called “King of Virtue,” and If all operas were like that movie, burlesque would have a rival.
But for British tastes Eric Crazier succeeded in creating a libretto which was toned down somewhat so that the cultured element called art—which everybody goes to the opera, for in the first place —would not be completely submerged.
SPOOFS VIRTUOUS VILLAGE
“Albert Herring” gently spoofs what in England has always been regarded as the citadel of virtue— the English village.
The story concerns a village festival in which a maiden whose chastity is unquestioned is to be crowned Queen of May. And in Loxford, where the story takes place, there is only one person who can qualify i man.
He is Albert Herring, a green grocer, who has been tied to his mother’s apron strings for so long that he is the ideal choice for King of May. None of the village girls could meet the exacting qualifications and so tradition tumbles and for the first time a King of May is crowned.
MAIDEN IS TENOR In the role of “Albert Herring” will be tenor Hendrik de Boer, a citizen of Holland, who won an American conservatory contest and has appeared in many roles in the Greek theater in Los Angeles.
Theodore Uppman, a baritone, will take the role of Sid, a butcher’s shophand. Uppman was chosen by the San Francisco Symphony’s Pierre Monteux to sing the role of Pelleas in a concert version of “Pelleas and Melisande” with Maggie Teyte.
Miss Teyte later called Uppman to New York to do complete performances in the same opera with the New York City Opera company. In 1947 he won both the Atwater Kent auditions and the Gainsborough award.
OLD APRONSTRINGS HERSELF Nancy, from the bakery, will be sung by Jean Fenn, soprano. She has taken prizes in both the Atwater Kent auditions and the Hollywood bowl auditions. She also sang the lead role in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra under Alfred Wallenstein. She also has sung the role of the Countess in “The Marriage of Figaro.”
Ava Gjerset, a mezzo-soprano,
COMES SOMETHING NEW, an opera with sex—Benjamin Britten's comic opera "Albert Herring" opens tonight in Bovard auditorium. Hendrick de Boer plays Herring; Theodore Uppman, Sid; Jean Fenn, Mrs. Herring; Muriel Maxwill, Florence; and Mami Nixon,
Mrs. Wordsworth.
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will sing the role of Mrs. Herring, Albert's mother. Emmie, Cis, and Harry, village children, will be played by Phyllis Olstead, Barbara Butterfield, sopranos, and Marvin Price, a boy soprano.
The role of Florence, a housekeeper, will be undertaken by mezzo-soprano Muriel Maxwell. She won first place in the Hollywood bowl auditions and made two appearances in the bowl last year.
The role of Miss Wordsworth, head teacher at Church school, will be sung by Memi Nixon, a colora-tura-soprano. She appeared in a concert series called “Evenings on the Roof” earlier this month.
The Vicar, a person full of “ecclesiastical double talk,” calls for a smooth baritone voice and this will be provided by Paul Hinshaw, the only undergraduate in the opera.
Lady Billows, the village aristocrat, will be sung by Lucine Amara, a soprano. She won the Atwater
Zech Blasts Casa de Rosas Charges of
Fire Hazard
Honor Roll
Honor roll for Thursday, Dec. 8. Trovet Living War Memorial contributors reaching 100%: Alpha Chi Omega .................. 100% Alpha Delta Pi ......................... 100% A Inha Ensilon Phi . ................ 100^
Alpha Epsilon Pi ................. 100%
Alpha Omicron Pi Alpha Phi Omega American Institute Architects .............. .................. 100^
................. ioor; of ................. 100%
Beta Sigma ............... ................. 100% .................. 100%
Casa de Rosas ........ ........... 100%
Delta Zeta ............... ................ 100%
................. 100%
100%
Phi Kappa Tau ...... ................ 100%
Phi Sigma Sigma .. ................. 100%
Pi Beta Phi ............... .................. 100%
Pi Kappa Alpha....... ................ 100%
Pi Lambda Phi......... ................ 100%
Sigma Chi............... .................. 100%
Zeta Beta Tau ........ ................ 100%
Delta Sigma Phi_____ ................. 100%
Phi Kappa Psi ........ ................ 100%
Phi Gamma Delta... ................. 100%
Minimum of $1 per member equals 100%.
“Charges that the Casa de Rosas is a fire hazard are unjustifiable,” said Dr. Albert Zech, counselor of men, yesterday, in replying to the claims of house president Andy Anderman that the men’s dormitory has inadequate fire inspection and prevention programs.
“Anderman has not been in my office even once this year with the complaints that he says he has made. I agree that hotplates and food stored in cardboard boxes do create a fire hazard, but with this complaint, Anderman was speaking out of turn, for residents at the house are not supposed to cook or have food in their rooms,” he added.
Dr. Zech pointed out that since the hall is not owned by the university, the administration is reluctant to institute any large-scale improvement plans.
He emphasized, however, that the building is leased on the condition
that it be kept in good and comfortable repair. The Casa is also subject to the same inspections that houses on the Row receive, and is expected to meet the same safety standards.
Kent awards in 1948 and sang the lead in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the San Francisco Symphony last year.
The role of the mayor will be sung by Jerome Zidek, a tenor. He plays a character who can be described as a “bucolic Mussolini.” Zidek formerly was with the Stanford Opera group and appeared as the devil in “Angelique.”
Dark-jowled bass Kalem Kermo-yan will sing the role of Superintendent Budd. He has appeared in another Britten opera. “Peter Grimes,” staged by the San Francisco Opera company.
“Albert Herring” will be directed by Dr. Carl Ebert. Music will be conducted by Wolfgang Martin who also will play the accompaniment for the recitations.
Tickets for “Albert Herring” cost 60 cents, $1.20, $1.80, and $2.40. They are available at the SC ticket office and all Mutual agencies.
Herring Premiere To Be Broadcast
The West Coast premiere of “Albert Herring” will be broadcast over KUSC tonight at 8:30.
During intermission, William Strobridge, former arranger and conductor of the Hancock ensemble. and music authority for the campus station, will interview composer Benjamin Britten and director Dr. Carl Ebert in addition to presenting his notes on the opera.
Apples Yummy, But SC Gummy
Sticky faced and gummed up students purchased 750 apples from Troeds, Wednesday and helped to raise more than $30 for the Living War Memorial and the YWCA building funds.
Janet Ewart, Troed president, said yesterday that the money raised In the Fatal Apple day sale will be divided among the two funds as soon as expenses are deducted.
Winner of one of the Fatal Apple surprise prizes is Marilyn Rosenfleld. The two other winners have not as yet claimed their awards. The claims can be made at the Daily Trojan office.
Others May Share Memorial ★ ★ ★ ★
Urge Living Tribute to Mohler
A plea for a “living memorial” for Orv Mohler aSd other “greats” was made at the Trojan grid awards banquet Wednesday night by Willis O. Hunter, director of intercollegiate athletics.
Hunter suggested that the various clubs such as the Trojan Club and Trojaneers get together and work ont plans for a memorial for the former all-American SC quarterback, who was killed in a plane crash Nov. 27.
“The memorial should be a living
thing,” said Hunter. “It might be something along the lines of the Living War Memorial or else some facility. It should be something that will be of use to people. Plaques and statues soon lose their meaning.”
Hunter said that it might be a good idea if the memorial made all-inclusive. He said there were many SC football greats who deserved to have their names perpetuated in memory.
Row Pledges To Compete In Relays
Row pledges will get off to a flying start Monday when the biannual Phi Sigma Kappa relays get under way at 3 pjn.
Thirty fraternities will compete for the rotating trophy by entering three runners in the tack fracas. Four runners will vie for honors in each 300-yard heat.
Last year's winners. Beta Theta Pi. will be defender of the trophy in the relay. Winner will be the runners with the fastest time.
The races, first sponsored by Phi Sigma Kappa in 1945, will begin at the west end of 28th street.
Members of the track team or track lettermen are ineligible for the contest.
On the distaff side, sorority pledges will oil up the brass wheel* and charge for 60 yards in the first all-sorority roller-skating race. Eighteen houses are entered this semester. The winner will receivt a rotating trophy depicting a winged roller-skate.
Refreshments will be served on the lawn of the old Phi Sig house at :>8th street and Hoover boulevard.
Dick Kappas, chairman of the relays, requested that all cars be moved off 28th street Monday afternoon.
Education Dance Set For Tonight
A pre-Christmas dance, the second of a series of faculty-student parties in the School of Education, will be held tonight in the Student Lounge from 8 p.m. to midnight.
This dance is open to all education majors and to graduate students seeking teaching credentials, said Bob Donaldson, president of the education council.
Refreshments will be served. The affair, sponsored by the education council, was planned by a committee headed by BiU Bulwa.
Dr. Reining To Take Census
A census of Boulder City, Nev. will be taken next Tuesday and Wednesday in connection with Dr Reining’s investigations to form a new government for the city.
Tihe census is to secure current information on housing and community services, the children of school and pre-school age, and the permanent population with respcct to voting status, property holdings, and employment. The census will be used for the purpose of planning community needs, Dr. Reining,
Professor of Public Administration, said.
It would be impractical, said Dr. Reining, to await the results cf next year’s census. Much of the information desired is kept secret by the federal census bureau, he said. And to wait for the information to be released would mean a delay of at least six months, he added.
The junior and senior chambers of commerce are being aided oy two labor unions in the financing of the census. With the aid of 100 volunteers, Dr. Reining believes
that the canvasing of the 1400 houses of the community will be completed in two afternoons of work.
The two labor union.-, \' > <\ ' helping finance the prc4 i "
National Federat'on o* ployees, an independent, and the American Federation o Government Employees, an affiliate of AFL.
The census will form a part of the progress report Dr. Reining will submit to the government &hi5 month.

Sigma Chi Chooses 5 Sweetheart Finalists
. . . and now there are five.
The five finalists in the “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” contest, as voted by the members of the .fraternity last night, are:
Joann Clare, Delta Gamma; Maxine Ewart, Pi Beta Phi; Ann Kelly, EVK; Marilyn Lindberg, Delta Delta Delta; Sally Trax, Alpha Gamma Delta.
At tonight’s dinner the "Sweetheart'’ will be selected. The announcement of the final choice will be made at the formal dance, given by Sigma Chi, tomorrow
night at the Miramar hotel. Two attendants will also be named.
Barbara Lohrmann, last year’s “Sweetheart,” will be tonight’s honored guest. All the balloting for the entrants who represent sorority houses and women resident halls, is conducted by the members of the fraternity. The original field
of contestants numbered 20.
MAXINE EWART A Former "Helen"
SALLY TRAX Might Be Winner
C-ND Film Set or Noon Benefit
Complete films of this jars SC-Notre Dame game, which many sports author-ies said SC used the best sing patterns they had rer seen, will be shown at >n today in Bovard. Admission to the snowing, )nsored by the Living War [emorial committee, will
>nsist of a student body I.D. card id a Living War Memorial con- j ibution receipt. The display of | cards is made nceessary by a icific Coast conference ruling h>hibiting the showing of such films to the general public. University college students and lembers of organizations which »ave made J00 per-cent oontribu-jlons to the drive need only show Eheir I.D. cards, and, in the case ►f the latter, evidence of their lembership in the organizations, |&s they were not issued receipts.
NO SOLICITORS Hal Carter, president of Trovets, rhich sponsors the drive, said that booth would be set up from 10 111 12 noon today in front of the tudent Union to take last minute tmtributions.
I Total contributions for the drive L>ve passed the $3000 mark, said fcarter. He said he was sure that i le amount collected this year Jould surpass last years $3800 toll when last minute contributions ! id pledged donations were re- ! pived.
HOPE FOR FINAL RUSH
| Optimistic Al Asa-Dorian, drive lairman, said he felt that last [mute contributions to the drive light surprise everyone.
[“Everybody does things at the I st minute,” said Asa-Dorian. iere is a good chance that con-
tributions today may equal what we've collected so far.”
Both Carter and Asa-Dorian praised War Memorial workers for the “interest and effort they have put into the drive.”
Baxter to Give Yule Reading
Dr. Frank Baxter, professor of English literature, will give his Christmas readings at the Pi Lambda Theta breakfast tomorrow morning at 9:30 in tihe Carolina Pines restaurant, 7315 Melrose avenue.
Guests at the meeting sponsored by the SC and UCLA chapters,
-dsip aijuumpj sapguv soq am pub ters will include Mrs. Eleanor Allen, Mrs. Gertrude Rounsavelle, Dr. May Seagoe, Dr. and Mrs. Frank Baxter, and seven foreign students.
Arrangements for the meeting have been handled by the presidents of the three chapters of the educational honorary sorority, Katherine Holzboog, UCLA; Mrs. Elsa May Smith, SC; and Clara May Post. Los Angeles alumna chapter.
Pokey Story of Eager Injun,
Is Hancock Hit
by JERRY BOYD
“Pokey,” the story of an eager injun. who draped her gorgeous shape over a skull which was about to be bashed in, was presented before a receptive audience last night in crowded Hancock as the final part of the Red Rhythms program.
Capt. John Smith was the owner of the skull. The trials and tribulations which he went through in getting his cranium in such a precarious predicament made for a hilarious comedy, climaxed by the dramatic moment when Pocahontas told her old man:
“If he gets it, I get it too.”
Mrs. Estelle Karcher Harmon, lecturer in the Theater Arts department at UCLA and Ph.D. candidate at SC, handled Pokey’s lines. Mrs. Harmon’s interpretation of Philip Moeller’s live-actor cartoon character was the high point of the Festival of Arts program.
Harold B. Owen, graduate student, capably handled the part of the harried Captain. Smith, and Arthur B. Friedman, another UCLA lecturer and SC Ph.D. candidate, read the part of Rolfe of Somersetshire, Smith’s sidekick.
The three-man show was put over in the subtle manner which Moeller intended it to be, and the acting was equal to the occasion. The actors, however, all of whom purportedly have had considerable experience in producing, directing, and acting, indicated that they might have had more experience in the first two fields than in the last.
“The Feast of the Virgins,” a dramatic reading of a Sioux legend, was handled by Kenneth Shanks, graduate student and teaching assistant in the speech department.
The show might have dragged at this point but for the brilliant emceeing by the old master of masters of ceremonies, Joe Flynn. Flynn’s prologue to the “Feast” reading put the audience into the right frame of mind and carried them through.
The program ended with the showing of “The Loon’s Necklace,” an art film which solves the mystery of how the loon got its necklace according to an Indian legend.
MARILYN LINDBERG "Dream Girl"
Could Take Crown
Delta Sig to Hold Silver, Cold Anniversary Ball
Jpha Phi Omega Ushers
Alpha Phi Omega members are lo report at 11:45 today to Bo-I "ard to usher for the film. [Sweaters, white shirts, and ties ild be worn.
A silver anniversary calls for a big celebration. A golden anniversary calls for a bigger celebration. Try combining the celebrations for both a silver and golden anniversary and you'll come up with something like the Carnation Ball to be held tomorrow night by Delta Sigma Phi.
The men of Delta Sigma Phi will commemorate the founding of the rational organization at City College of New York in 1899, as well as the founding of SC’s Alpha Phi
chapter in 1924, with their annual dance at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. Alpha Phi chapter has one of the longest uninterrupted existences on this campus.
The fraternity will dedicate its activities during the coming year to the men who founded their chapter.
Prominent alumni include Sid Beach, past president of the Los Angeles Realty board, and Russ Cordell, past president of the Trojan club.
Unions Blamed For Nixing GI Holiday Jobs
A labor decision from the eastern office of Railway Express was responsible for the turning away of vet students when they applied for temporary Christmas work this week, according to Railway Express personnel officials.
“An investigation revealed the fact that certain national labor groups are adverse to veterans, who are being subsidized and educated by the government securing part-time jobs which unemployed union members may desire,” Mrs. Florence B. Watt, director of the university employment office, said yesterday.
“However,” Mrs. Watt continued, “the California State Employment Service is cooperating with the university employment bureau in placing disappointed SC \Tts in depot jobs.” The state employment service is telephoning all men who were scheduled to work for the express company, and it is expected that they will be placed if they are at home to receive the call.
“Because of our fine relations with Railway Express during the past years, we feel certain that this temporary situation can be adjusted satisfactorily,” Mrs. Watt said.
The campus unit of the office of veteran affairs said that it had received a call from Railway Express about the decision not to hire vets, but that no immediate action would be taken.
Union officials were not available for comment.
)ELTA SIGMA PHI will hold its annual Carnation ball at the Beverly Wilshire hotel tomorrow night. The fraternity this year commemorates its national and local, silver and gold* anniversaries. Pictured left to right are Barbara Bates, Doug Morgan, Ann DeFreze,
Joe Perez, Jane Aven, and Tom HalL
Engineer to Hold Govt. Interviews
State Bureau of Public Roads will be on campus today to interview engineering students and graduates for positions under the bureau’s highway engineer training program.
Men who have completed two or three years of civil engineering training are eligible for the program as are graduates.
The training period will continue approximately three years after graduation. Students already graduated also are eligible for work as highway engineer and highway bridge engineer.
H. A. Alderton, senior highway engineer, will conduct the interviews in 320 Student Union.
‘Herring’ Run Begins Tonight as Opera on Village Farce Opens
Based On French Tale
by AL NEGRI and OWEN ANDERSON
Ever since the Met began hiring glamour girls, opera has been something to look at as well as hear. Now comes something new—an opera with sex.
Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring,” which opens a 4-night run tonight at 8:30 in Bovard auditorium, is based
on a story by Guy de Maupassant. The French made it into a movie called “King of Virtue,” and If all operas were like that movie, burlesque would have a rival.
But for British tastes Eric Crazier succeeded in creating a libretto which was toned down somewhat so that the cultured element called art—which everybody goes to the opera, for in the first place —would not be completely submerged.
SPOOFS VIRTUOUS VILLAGE
“Albert Herring” gently spoofs what in England has always been regarded as the citadel of virtue— the English village.
The story concerns a village festival in which a maiden whose chastity is unquestioned is to be crowned Queen of May. And in Loxford, where the story takes place, there is only one person who can qualify i man.
He is Albert Herring, a green grocer, who has been tied to his mother’s apron strings for so long that he is the ideal choice for King of May. None of the village girls could meet the exacting qualifications and so tradition tumbles and for the first time a King of May is crowned.
MAIDEN IS TENOR In the role of “Albert Herring” will be tenor Hendrik de Boer, a citizen of Holland, who won an American conservatory contest and has appeared in many roles in the Greek theater in Los Angeles.
Theodore Uppman, a baritone, will take the role of Sid, a butcher’s shophand. Uppman was chosen by the San Francisco Symphony’s Pierre Monteux to sing the role of Pelleas in a concert version of “Pelleas and Melisande” with Maggie Teyte.
Miss Teyte later called Uppman to New York to do complete performances in the same opera with the New York City Opera company. In 1947 he won both the Atwater Kent auditions and the Gainsborough award.
OLD APRONSTRINGS HERSELF Nancy, from the bakery, will be sung by Jean Fenn, soprano. She has taken prizes in both the Atwater Kent auditions and the Hollywood bowl auditions. She also sang the lead role in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra under Alfred Wallenstein. She also has sung the role of the Countess in “The Marriage of Figaro.”
Ava Gjerset, a mezzo-soprano,
COMES SOMETHING NEW, an opera with sex—Benjamin Britten's comic opera "Albert Herring" opens tonight in Bovard auditorium. Hendrick de Boer plays Herring; Theodore Uppman, Sid; Jean Fenn, Mrs. Herring; Muriel Maxwill, Florence; and Mami Nixon,
Mrs. Wordsworth.
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will sing the role of Mrs. Herring, Albert's mother. Emmie, Cis, and Harry, village children, will be played by Phyllis Olstead, Barbara Butterfield, sopranos, and Marvin Price, a boy soprano.
The role of Florence, a housekeeper, will be undertaken by mezzo-soprano Muriel Maxwell. She won first place in the Hollywood bowl auditions and made two appearances in the bowl last year.
The role of Miss Wordsworth, head teacher at Church school, will be sung by Memi Nixon, a colora-tura-soprano. She appeared in a concert series called “Evenings on the Roof” earlier this month.
The Vicar, a person full of “ecclesiastical double talk,” calls for a smooth baritone voice and this will be provided by Paul Hinshaw, the only undergraduate in the opera.
Lady Billows, the village aristocrat, will be sung by Lucine Amara, a soprano. She won the Atwater
Zech Blasts Casa de Rosas Charges of
Fire Hazard
Honor Roll
Honor roll for Thursday, Dec. 8. Trovet Living War Memorial contributors reaching 100%: Alpha Chi Omega .................. 100% Alpha Delta Pi ......................... 100% A Inha Ensilon Phi . ................ 100^
Alpha Epsilon Pi ................. 100%
Alpha Omicron Pi Alpha Phi Omega American Institute Architects .............. .................. 100^
................. ioor; of ................. 100%
Beta Sigma ............... ................. 100% .................. 100%
Casa de Rosas ........ ........... 100%
Delta Zeta ............... ................ 100%
................. 100%
100%
Phi Kappa Tau ...... ................ 100%
Phi Sigma Sigma .. ................. 100%
Pi Beta Phi ............... .................. 100%
Pi Kappa Alpha....... ................ 100%
Pi Lambda Phi......... ................ 100%
Sigma Chi............... .................. 100%
Zeta Beta Tau ........ ................ 100%
Delta Sigma Phi_____ ................. 100%
Phi Kappa Psi ........ ................ 100%
Phi Gamma Delta... ................. 100%
Minimum of $1 per member equals 100%.
“Charges that the Casa de Rosas is a fire hazard are unjustifiable,” said Dr. Albert Zech, counselor of men, yesterday, in replying to the claims of house president Andy Anderman that the men’s dormitory has inadequate fire inspection and prevention programs.
“Anderman has not been in my office even once this year with the complaints that he says he has made. I agree that hotplates and food stored in cardboard boxes do create a fire hazard, but with this complaint, Anderman was speaking out of turn, for residents at the house are not supposed to cook or have food in their rooms,” he added.
Dr. Zech pointed out that since the hall is not owned by the university, the administration is reluctant to institute any large-scale improvement plans.
He emphasized, however, that the building is leased on the condition
that it be kept in good and comfortable repair. The Casa is also subject to the same inspections that houses on the Row receive, and is expected to meet the same safety standards.
Kent awards in 1948 and sang the lead in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the San Francisco Symphony last year.
The role of the mayor will be sung by Jerome Zidek, a tenor. He plays a character who can be described as a “bucolic Mussolini.” Zidek formerly was with the Stanford Opera group and appeared as the devil in “Angelique.”
Dark-jowled bass Kalem Kermo-yan will sing the role of Superintendent Budd. He has appeared in another Britten opera. “Peter Grimes,” staged by the San Francisco Opera company.
“Albert Herring” will be directed by Dr. Carl Ebert. Music will be conducted by Wolfgang Martin who also will play the accompaniment for the recitations.
Tickets for “Albert Herring” cost 60 cents, $1.20, $1.80, and $2.40. They are available at the SC ticket office and all Mutual agencies.
Herring Premiere To Be Broadcast
The West Coast premiere of “Albert Herring” will be broadcast over KUSC tonight at 8:30.
During intermission, William Strobridge, former arranger and conductor of the Hancock ensemble. and music authority for the campus station, will interview composer Benjamin Britten and director Dr. Carl Ebert in addition to presenting his notes on the opera.
Apples Yummy, But SC Gummy
Sticky faced and gummed up students purchased 750 apples from Troeds, Wednesday and helped to raise more than $30 for the Living War Memorial and the YWCA building funds.
Janet Ewart, Troed president, said yesterday that the money raised In the Fatal Apple day sale will be divided among the two funds as soon as expenses are deducted.
Winner of one of the Fatal Apple surprise prizes is Marilyn Rosenfleld. The two other winners have not as yet claimed their awards. The claims can be made at the Daily Trojan office.
Others May Share Memorial ★ ★ ★ ★
Urge Living Tribute to Mohler
A plea for a “living memorial” for Orv Mohler aSd other “greats” was made at the Trojan grid awards banquet Wednesday night by Willis O. Hunter, director of intercollegiate athletics.
Hunter suggested that the various clubs such as the Trojan Club and Trojaneers get together and work ont plans for a memorial for the former all-American SC quarterback, who was killed in a plane crash Nov. 27.
“The memorial should be a living
thing,” said Hunter. “It might be something along the lines of the Living War Memorial or else some facility. It should be something that will be of use to people. Plaques and statues soon lose their meaning.”
Hunter said that it might be a good idea if the memorial made all-inclusive. He said there were many SC football greats who deserved to have their names perpetuated in memory.
Row Pledges To Compete In Relays
Row pledges will get off to a flying start Monday when the biannual Phi Sigma Kappa relays get under way at 3 pjn.
Thirty fraternities will compete for the rotating trophy by entering three runners in the tack fracas. Four runners will vie for honors in each 300-yard heat.
Last year's winners. Beta Theta Pi. will be defender of the trophy in the relay. Winner will be the runners with the fastest time.
The races, first sponsored by Phi Sigma Kappa in 1945, will begin at the west end of 28th street.
Members of the track team or track lettermen are ineligible for the contest.
On the distaff side, sorority pledges will oil up the brass wheel* and charge for 60 yards in the first all-sorority roller-skating race. Eighteen houses are entered this semester. The winner will receivt a rotating trophy depicting a winged roller-skate.
Refreshments will be served on the lawn of the old Phi Sig house at :>8th street and Hoover boulevard.
Dick Kappas, chairman of the relays, requested that all cars be moved off 28th street Monday afternoon.
Education Dance Set For Tonight
A pre-Christmas dance, the second of a series of faculty-student parties in the School of Education, will be held tonight in the Student Lounge from 8 p.m. to midnight.
This dance is open to all education majors and to graduate students seeking teaching credentials, said Bob Donaldson, president of the education council.
Refreshments will be served. The affair, sponsored by the education council, was planned by a committee headed by BiU Bulwa.
Dr. Reining To Take Census
A census of Boulder City, Nev. will be taken next Tuesday and Wednesday in connection with Dr Reining’s investigations to form a new government for the city.
Tihe census is to secure current information on housing and community services, the children of school and pre-school age, and the permanent population with respcct to voting status, property holdings, and employment. The census will be used for the purpose of planning community needs, Dr. Reining,
Professor of Public Administration, said.
It would be impractical, said Dr. Reining, to await the results cf next year’s census. Much of the information desired is kept secret by the federal census bureau, he said. And to wait for the information to be released would mean a delay of at least six months, he added.
The junior and senior chambers of commerce are being aided oy two labor unions in the financing of the census. With the aid of 100 volunteers, Dr. Reining believes
that the canvasing of the 1400 houses of the community will be completed in two afternoons of work.
The two labor union.-, \' >